Thing 13: Exploring del.icio.us was fun. I viewed the 12 minute tutorial on del.icio.us and found it helpful. I completed the Optional exercise in setting up a delicious account with three bookmarks and three tags (at that time) linking SJSU academic and sjlibrary together. Seems very helpful to have bookmarks in one place. But, I have a question. Now I have a del.icio.us account, a rollyo account, a bloglines account, a flickr account, and a blog, so in order to find all this streamlined information, I now have more places to go to get it!!! Seems like more work than necessary. Where are the days when we just checked our email and surfed the web?
* In order to deal with the issue listed above, I started adding more links to my blog so that a lot of the same information could be easier to access from any computer. I think it helps!
Exercise 2 & 3: Looked in del.icio.us SJLibraryLearning2 and found that the first bookmark was saved by 21 people and was very cool since it was concerning LibraryThing, which is a great social bookmarking tool for booklovers and their collections and favorites. I guess I need another account! :0) Also, there were 12 tags under the heading Education, some of them library-related.
Thing 14: Discovery exercise #1 was fun! keyword searchs in Technorati were different depending on how you limited them. Searches for Learning 2.0 in blogposts yielded 34,258 results. Searching in tags yielded 223 blog tags. Searching in the blog directory only yielded 1 blog, "2 Cents Worth." Discovery exercise #2: apparently BoingBoing is the most popular blog w. 1,455 members making it their Favorite! Discovery excercise #3: doing it now-blog post. Discovery exercise #4: thoughts about tagging. It seems useful. I still need to learn how to tag the LibraryThing post in the Technorati as one of my favorite's. May need a Technorati account...
Thing 15: I read one of the five perspectives in the OCLC Next Space Newsletter, and found the Away from the Iceberg post, by Rick Anderson, very intriguing. The notion of the "just in case" collection made sense (except for very difficult to obtain books that people would like to see in hard copy-these are rare and not in the "just in case" collection anyway). The "come to us" model of library services is just what Library 2.0 is about and it means "integrating our services into their daily patterns of work, study and play."
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Wow Deb, you're just zipping along. Sounds like you're having fun, too as you explore the exercises.
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